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...happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now.” The confusion as to what comprises national identity reflects the complexity of what determines sexual identity. Each have simple answers—citizenship and genitalia??that pose more questions—assimilation and the gendered mind. Though the Bracelets derive their certainty and power from their families’ past, Cal finds little consolation and few answers in his own warped past...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eugenides’ Transitive Epic | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...eliciting information—has to be the animating motive.Bybee’s sophistries are threaded together with a kind of ghoulish moral imperviousness. He speculates that it is “likely” that a court would find that “electric shocks to genitalia?? constitute torture. Describing someone being forced to his knees and kicked in the stomach with military boots, however, Bybee decides that the resulting agony would not amount to “severe pain or suffering”—and would thus be permissible. Having whittled the criminal...

Author: By Curtis M. Brown, | Title: Whitewashing Torture | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia??and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Sin City | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia??and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Frank Miller's Sin City | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

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